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New Jersey Marijuana Bill is '98 Percent' Done

The final fight is over how much to tax cannabis.

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A bill to create a legal marijuana marketplace in New Jersey is "98 percent" done, with a dispute over tax rates the only major sticking point, one of the state's leading legal marijuana advocates said.

Scott Rudder, who heads the New Jersey CannaBusiness Association, a trade group of aspiring marijuana growers, cultivators, retailers and related businesses, said the major holdup is whether to impose a 25 percent tax on retail marijuana sales right away, or start with a lower tax rate that escalates to that level over several years.

Speaking at a conference sponsored by the business newspaper and website NJBIZ, Rudder said he remains optimistic that lawmakers will soon hammer out a deal to make New Jersey the ninth state to allow adults 21 and over to use marijuana for any reason.

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“I’m very, very, very confident," Rudder told more than 100 people at a hotel in Somerset. "We have worked out 98 percent of the issues.”

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